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In Vinh Thanh Trung, An Giang province in southern Vietnam, a farmer who gave up rice and switched to the Thai variety of jackfruit (mit) is earning take-home income that exceeds year-round rice farming. Phan Trung Tin, reported by the local paper Dan Viet (August 14, 2026)...

Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta has begun bundling its mango-growing areas by "number." Mango cultivation in the province covers about 17,300 ha with annual output of more than 185,000 tonnes. Of this, 10,030.17 ha have obtained 353 growing-area codes (ma so vung trong), and quality is being aligned to the VietGAP, GlobalGAP, and organic standards...

Vietnamese tilapia exports to Japan rose 54% in the first half of 2026. We unpack, through the numbers and the global supply and demand for white fish, how a fish once used as a substitute for sea bream at conveyor-belt sushi is opening up the Japanese market as a sashimi-grade, high-value-added product.

In the Luong Tam area of Can Tho City, 180 households and 250 hectares are taking up tom-lua (shrimp-rice farming) using paddy fields. We interpret this low-input model that turns salt-damaged land into a resource, and its meaning for Japanese premium sourcing.

Rice farming in the Mekong Delta has long been said to be "done by experience." The timing of sowing, how water is let in, how much fertilizer is spread—all of it rests on intuition passed from parent to child. Yet in a strongly acidic corner of An Giang province, a farmer who replaced that intuition with soil design, without letting the rice wither...

On a single tree, flowers and fruit awaiting harvest hang at the same time. On a sandbar in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, such a new variety of longan has begun to bear fruit. Its name is "Long Phung Chau." It fruits about two years after planting, can be harvested almost year-round, and sells at 100,000 dong per kilo (about...

A farmer in Can Tho city in the Mekong Delta chose to tear out paddy fields and fruit trees and plant only areca (betel nut, cau in Vietnamese), and in 2025 made a profit of more than one billion dong (about 6 million yen, at roughly 60 yen to 10,000 dong) from the sale of fresh fruit alone. The Vietnamese paper Thanh Nien, on July 3, 2026...

In Ca Mau province at Vietnam's southernmost tip, the trial cultivation of a coconut called "dua dua" (dua dua), which gives off the sweet aroma of pandan leaf the moment it is split open, is beginning to take shape. A trial farm under the province's agricultural extension center has planted more than 300 trees on about 2.7 hectares, with 70 to 100 fruits per tree per year and, per fruit, 250...

An Giang province harvested 5.3 million tonnes of rice in six months, of which 76.4% was high-quality rice. The planting of low-emission rice expanded to 184,000 ha. We read what the Mekong Delta one-million-hectare plan and low-carbon rice mean for Japanese sourcing.

A mangosteen orchard in Can Tho has turned its old trees into a tourism resource by attaching QR codes, names, and tree ages. We unpack this Mekong move from supplying raw materials to selling a story, and the implications for Japanese dried fruit, gifts, and growing-area branding.